Basic pymarc usage example.

simpledump.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Example usage: python simpledump.py data/marc/010-lok.mrc

"""

import pymarc
import sys

def dump(filename):
    reader = pymarc.MARCReader(file(filename))
    for record in reader:
        print 'Leader ==>', record.leader
        for field in record:
            print field.tag, '|',
            if hasattr(field, 'subfields'):
                print 'Indicators ==>', field.indicators,
                print 'Subfields ==>', field.subfields
            else:
                print field.data
        print '-' * 48

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        dump(sys.argv[1])
    except IndexError:
        print 'usage: %s FILENAME' % sys.argv[0]